Remembering Marvel's Cosmic Heroes

Marvel recently wrapped up The Thanos Imperative, the latest chapter in a multi-year saga that has seen the publisher's cosmic heroes untie against one powerful threat after another. The toll was high once again, with several major characters falling heroically in battle. Warning - there are spoilers for The Thanos Imperative #6 ahead!

Just as Marvel followed up War of Kings with the epilogue issue War of Kings: Who Will Rule?, they're capping off the events of The Thanos Imperative with a one-shot entitled The Thanos Imperative: Devastation. This issue sees the survivors of the war with the Cancerverse picking up the pieces and honoring the fallen dead. Two such fallen dead are spotlighted in a teaser released by Marvel today:

What will become of the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Nova Corps with their respective leaders gone? That's one of the questions we expect will be answered in Devastation. Here's Marvel's official description for the issue:

THE THANOS IMPERATIVE is over...but who and what has survived? What happened to Thanos? What about Lord Mar-Vell and the Cancerverse? Who rules the Kree and the Shi'Ar? Is anyone left to guard the galaxy? And who will hold the shattered civilizations of the Marvel Universe together in this bleak new age? Find out from the creative team that delivered the cosmic event that IGN.com hailed as "Unbelievably incredible & unimaginably entertaining."